An Open Centre for migrants registered for assisted voluntary return and reintegration (OCAVRR) is established near the center of Athens in order to provide shelter to migrants in Greece who have registered with IOM Greece’s Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR) programmes and who have no place to stay until their departure. The beneficiaries are vulnerable migrants, defined for the purpose of the project as pregnant women, single parent families, migrants with medical needs, elderly migrants and migrants who are destitute.

The Open Centre is situated among hospitals, embassies of third countries and very near to underground and bus stations.

The Open Centre provides services of vital nature to vulnerable migrants until they return to the Country of Origin with dignity, such as: